On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, [iso-8859-7] ������� �������������� wrote: > On Thursday 06 June 2002 22:36, Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: > > > After adding a 40G ide disk(ad3) on my system, I 'ld like to devote > > > some extra space to FreeBSD (there is already a linux installation on > > > the 40G disk). However, after booting my -stable installation on the > > > first disk(ad0), I get the error message "excessive recursion in search > > > for slices" by the kernel on any attempt to access ad3 (mount a > > > partition, fdisk -s /dev/ad3, or even a read() on ad3). > > > > Try zeroing off the beginning of the disk with dd; maybe there's a > > corrupt partition table there. > > No, the partition table is _not_ corrupt. As I mentioned before, I have a > working linux installation on said disk. Moreover, I can parse the > partition table chain under the linux kernel (using userspace tools) but > under freebsd I get the same error as the freebsd kernel partition handling > code. I even read the mbr pt + extended pts with a hex editor, they are > just fine. I' ve spent about two weeks on the subject before ruling out all > posibilities that this is a partition handling problem.
Well if tools blow up on multiple platforms, I'm inclined to point to a corrupt partition table. Linux may have a workaround but it doesn't get around the root brokenness. Fix your partition table and your systems will be happy. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
